Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1887-04-03
mbeelins Resister
BILL NYE
LEARNING TO. ACT AS SPECIAL CORRESPON-
DENT.
A Novice in Literary and Newspaper Work, BUi
S6ll he Gets Along TOlsrably Wsl-Nsws
From GranalatOn Hicks Of Boston.
Boston GlO6s.

AsHEvILLE, n. c., March Is, 1857
The following constitute the items ol
great interest occurring on the East Side
among the cOlored people of Blue Ruin;
Montmoreney Tonsley Of Pizen Ivy ave
nue. cut his foot badly last week while
chOpping wood fora party on Willow street
He has been warned time and again not to
chop wood when the sign WAS not right,
but he would not listen to his friends. He
not only cut off enough of his foot to weigh
three or four pounds, but he received the
coffee sack IN which his foot was done ~
ut the time. 1t will be some time before
he can radiate around among the boys on
Pizen avenue again.
Plum Beasley's house eOaught on IRE
last Tuesday night. He reekons it was
caused by a defective 1ue, for the fire
caught in the north wing. This one o
Plum's hon mots, however. He tries to
make lizht of it. but the wood he has beer
usipg an winter was white birch, and
when he got a big dose Of hickory at the
same place last week it was 20 dark thai he
didn't notice the difference and before he
knew il he had = bigger fire than he had
allowed. In the midst Of q pleasant flow
of conversation gas collected in the wood
and caused an explosion which threw s
parcel of live Goals on the bed. The house
was soon a solid mass OF flame. MIR,
Beasley is still short two children.
Mr.. GranulatiOn Hicks of Boston, Mass.
who has won deserved distinction in ad'
yancing the interests of Sir George Pull
man of Chicago, is here visiting his parents
who reside ON Upper HOminy. We arr
Glad TO see Mr.. Hicks and hope he may
live long to visit Blue Ruin and propitiatt
up and down our streets.
Miss RosOla Cadiman has Just been thu
recipient of q beautiful pair OF chaste ear
hobs from her brother, who is a nigh
Waterman in q iewelry store run by smaI
named Tiffany in New York. RoseOli
claims that Tiffany makes a right smart o
her brother, and sets a heap by him.
WhOOping cough and horse istemper ar
again making fearful havoc among the bet
ter classes at the foot of Pizen Ivy avenue
We are panied to learn that the free read
ing room, established over A~malgamatior
Browns store, has been closed up by The
police. Blue Ruin has ClamOred for a fret
temperance reading room and brain rotor
for ten years, and nov a ruction between
two of our best known citizens, over The
relative merits of a natural pair and a doc
tored flush, has called down the vengeance
of the authorities, and shut up what was 4
credit to the place and a qiet resort, wher,
yOung men could come night after night
and kind of cOmplicate themselves at
There are two or three men in this place
that will bully or bust everything they car
get into, and they have perforated more
Outrages on Blue Ruin than we are entitled
10 put up with.
There was a successful dOings at the
creek last Sabbath, during which baptism
was administered TO fOur grown people anC
a dude from Sandy Mush. The pastor
thinks it will take irst rate, though ii l.
still too soon to tell.
Surrender Adams got a letter last Friday
from his son Gladstone, who filed on
homestead near Porcupine, Oak, two year
AGO. He saws they have had another o
those unprecedented winters there 10
which Dakota is so justly celebrated. IL
thinks this one has been even more 5
than any of the others. He wishes he wa
back here nj Blue Ruin, where a man ca
20 ont doors for half an hour without get
ting oStracized by the elements. He say
they brag a good deal on their ozone there
but he allows that it can be OverdOne. n
states that when the ozone in Dakota
feeling pretty well and humping itself AM
curling up sheet-iron roofs and BLOWN
trains off the track, q man has to tie
clothes-liue to himself, with the outer en-
fastened to the door kuOb, before il is sal
to visit his own hen-hOuSe. He says tina
his nearest ncighbOr is seventeen mile
away. and a man might as well buy hi
chickens as To fool his money away o
seventeen miles of clOtbeS-line.
1t is a iirst-rate letter, and the old ma
wonders who Gladstone got to write 1t 70
him.
The valuable ecru dog of our distiu
guished townSman, Mr.. Piedmont Babbltt
was seriously impaired last Saturday mort
ing by an east bound freight.
He will not wrinkle up his nose at Al
other freight train.
George Wellington OF Hickory was i
town the front end Ut the week. He Ia
accepted a position in the liyegy, feed an
sale stable at Sandy Mush. Call agar
George.
Gabriel Brant met with q sad mishap
few days since while crossing the Frenc
Broad river, by which be lost his leg.
Any one who may find an extra leg b
low where the accident occurred will COZ
fer a favor on Mr.. Brant by returning sam
tO No. 264 Pneumonia street. Ii may /
readily identified by any one, rs tits mad
of an old pick handle and weighs fOu
pounds.
j. Quincy Burns has written q wa
article for the Century magazine, regard
ing q battle where he was at. In thi
article he aims to describe the sensation
Of man who is ignorant Of physical tea
and yet yearnS 10 have the matter sui
mitted TO arbitration. He giyeSa thOrOug
expose of his efforts in trying TO find a sui
able board of arbitration as soon Us he 81
that the enemy felt hostile and eager IL
the fray.
The forth coming number of the CentuT
will he eagerly snapped up by Mr.. Burn.
friends who are familiar with his pleaSiu
and graphic style OF writing. He describ'
with wonderful power the sense OF utt,
exhaustion which came over him and ii
feeling of bitter disappointment when /
realized that he was too far away To parti'
ipate in the battle and too fatigued
make a further search for suitable arbitr;
tors. BILL NEE.
All the Difference in the World.
BBrddts iR BroOklgR Edgle.
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